By now, everyone has been told about and has probably experienced aloe vera’s goodness to improve skin tone and soothe irritated skin. Now, a recent study by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, has discovered that aloe vera flower extracts contain chemical elements that could aid data storage.
Tanushree Ghosh, a researcher involved in the study, said that aloe vera blossoms have chemical components that influence electronic memory. These chemical substances enable electronic data storage with the aid of batteries. Ghosh claimed this is the first time such an effect has been observed in any plant.
“We used the juice of aloe vera flowers to transfer electricity during our research. We discovered that it possesses compounds that influence electronic memory and that electrical conductivity can be adjusted as required, Rajesh Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Indore, said.
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“The current method uses synthetic chemicals to create data storage devices such as memory chips. This research could pave the path for using natural components such as aloe vera flower juice rather than synthetic ones,” Kumar added.
The study, being conducted in collaboration with the Department of Physics at IIT Indore and the Centre for Rural Development and Technology and Centre for Advanced Electronics, will also help boost the institute’s efforts to foster the spread of the Indian knowledge systems, IIT Indore said.
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This research is funded in part by the Department of Science and Technology’s Fund for Improvement of Science and Technology Infrastructure (FIST) and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).
This research work was published in the journal ACS Applied Electronic Materials. The research was conducted at the Materials and Devices Laboratory at IIT Indore’s Department of Physics. Tanushree Ghosh, Suchita Kandpal, Chanchal Rani, Manushree Tanwar, Devesh Pathak and Anjali Choudhary conducted the research under the supervision of Associate Professor Rajesh Kumar.
